C I Host's GameVault Launches at CES in Las Vegas; On-Line Game Hosting Network Announces Acquisition of 2AM Game Club
9 January 2004
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- GameVault, a hosting network specifically dedicated to competitive online gaming and a subsidiary of C I Host, today announced the acquisition of 2AM Game Club.
"C I Host officially launched GameVault this week in Las Vegas at CES and the feedback has been crazy -- in a positive way," said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. "Now with the acquisition of 2AM we are taking the hottest new brand in gaming -- GameVault -- and stamping it on one of the most established gaming communities on the Internet."
2AM, located at www.2am.com , launched in 1996 offering multi-player gaming services including Total War, Alliance and Defiance, The Invisible Hand, Poker, Backgammon and more. The site has more than 20,000 members and the 2AM site tallies 30,000 hits a day. Visitors to the site now see a mirror of the GameVault homepage, www.gamevault.com .
"In one strategic move, we have supercharged a popular site and built a sizeable customer base for GameVault, the next generation of online gaming," Faulkner said. "Gamers at the Vegas show like the new look and the product offering. We're ecstatic with that field research."
GameVault.com provides fast, powerful, feature-filled and reliable gaming services for most online games. GameVault features:
# advanced hardware -- Internet redundant connections. -- 24/7 customer service and technical support - anywhere
GameVault servers are located in Dallas, Chicago and Los Angeles (with London coming during 2004).
About GameVault:GameVault was founded on the principle that bleeding-edge computing technology -- the same used by the enterprise -- is vital to online gaming. The company supplies powerful and reliable server hosting for more than a dozen online games including Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament 2003, Call of Honor and America's Army.
About C I Host:C I Host (www.cihost.com ), based in the Dallas/Fort Worth market, is a global Web hosting and Internet solutions provider serving 205,000 individual consumers and businesses in 182 countries worldwide. C I Host is headquartered from its main facility and Network Operations Center in Bedford, Texas, and the company operates three additional diverse data centers in Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago.
